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CA leaders react to Biden’s apparent victory

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[Image from video of Biden’s victory speech, via Biden Harris campaign]
LOS ANGELES – Reactions are pouring in from elected officials to the news that former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris were declared the winners of the presidential election.

The election result is not official, but multiple media outlets reported at around 8:30 a.m. PST on Saturday, Nov. 7, that Biden would win Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes, putting the Democratic ticket over the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

President Donald Trump has not conceded, however, and he is promising legal challenges in numerous states where mail-in votes were still being counted after Tuesday, and where Biden had overtaken his lead.

Here are a few of this weekend’s reactions:

—From Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva:
“Congratulations to President-Elect @JoeBiden and Vice President- Elect @KamalaHarris. I wish you success and support in bringing us all together as a nation.”

–From L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn:
“The race has been called and the American people have decided: Joe Biden is the next President of the United States. 100 years after women won their right to vote, a Black woman has been elected Vice President of the United States. This is a proud day for our nation. Now the real work begins. The Biden-Harris Administration and the new Congress have their work cut out for them addressing the ongoing pandemic and the economic fallout it has created, earning back the confidence of our allies, and repairing our wounded institutions. For first time since Ronald Reagan, we are sending a Californian to the White House. As our state’s junior senator, Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris understands the challenges we face — whether it is the housing crisis and homelessness, or the need to expand access to mental healthcare. She is in our corner and I cannot wait to work with her and President Biden on behalf of LA County.”

–From L.A. County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl:
“At long last…. Congratulations, President-Elect Biden!  And, Vice- President-Elect Kamala Harris is making herstory by becoming the first woman AND person of color to serve as Vice President. Cheers to Kamala, the first but not the last! There will still be recounts and with them, some anxiety, but in the midst of dark, troubling times, this is definitely a glimmer of hope that we can return to decency, respect, and compassion, both in the policy and in the character of this great nation.”

–From California Gov. Gavin Newsom:
“This was the victory we needed to see to be the America we know we can be. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the choice of a record number of American voters — and an overwhelming majority of Californians — because we know they will represent all Americans. They will treat every person with dignity and deserving of equal opportunity. They will attack systemic injustices, not their fellow Americans. They will respect the rule of law and democratic institutions. They will elevate science and expertise and renew America’s place of leadership in responding to global threats like COVID and climate change. In short, they will return our better angels to our nation’s highest offices.”

From 23rd Congressional District Representative and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:
“Every legal vote must be counted. Every recount must be completed. Every legal challenge must be heard. Then and only then does America decide who won the race.”

From Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris:
“… like it or not he is now our President. Continuing down a path of hate and discord will not help our country.”

 

58 comments for "CA leaders react to Biden’s apparent victory"

  1. You’ve just witnessed the end of television news as we know it. Scrambling to cover-up Harris-Biden campaign election rigging, the mainstream media just committed suicide. Its credibility is, now and forever, a foregone conclusion. Kamikaze attack, in desperation to take out Trump, the mainstream media took itself out.

  2. … evidence as abundant as it is overwhelming, President Trump is well on his way, to flipping Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Arizona. If they did deep enough, Virginia and Maine –

    • So remote is the likelihood the Harris-Biden people won this election, odds they did so, fair and square, are more statistically astronomic than flipping a coin, coming up heads 165 thousand times in a row.

    • Yeah! I saw that, too! All night long Trump was way ahead in Virginia and Maine? Presto chango, somehow they simultaneously flipped to Biden at exactly the same time.

  3. … principle enablers caught red-handed, in collusion, orchestrating the Harris-Biden coup:

    1). the mainstream media (print media; television news) –
    2). the Silicon Valley soy-boys (Apple; Google; Facebook; Twitter) –
    3). the limousine liberals (Hollywood; the Clintons; Barack Obama) –
    4). Chinese intelligence (operating through front corporations on U.S. soil) –
    5). the government boyz (entrenched deep-state operatives) –

  4. It’s called Fox News, Breitbart, Qanon, Facebook, Twitter et al.

    With all of our advanced information technology, some people gravitate toward the lies and conspiracies and WILL NOT ACCEPT PROVABLE FACTS AND EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY.

    They provide no evidence of voter fraud yet they still believe it. The courts keep tossing out their flimsy cases.

    That activity is altering their brains’ ability to process information normally. That’s why they stubbornly stick to the unreality no matter how debunked it is.

    Haven’t you noticed how intractable they are, Claire?

    They live amongst us like in some horror zombie movie.

  5. … the Clintons, Obamas and Bidens all share three commonalities:

    1). out for themselves, they are utterly ruthless –
    2). wholly devoid a morale center, they are without compunction –
    3). they loathe each other, even more than they do, us –

    • Kippy

      You’re talking about the Trump family

      -all out for themselves
      -zero moral center
      -no compunction

      How did you get that so backward?

        • It’s called Fox News, Breitbart, Qanon, Facebook, Twitter et al.

          With all of our advanced information technology, some people gravitate toward the lies and conspiracies and WILL NOT ACCEPT PROVABLE FACTS AND EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY.

          They provide no evidence of voter fraud yet they still believe it. The courts keep tossing out their flimsy cases.

          That activity is altering their brains’ ability to process information normally. That’s why they stubbornly stick to the unreality no matter how debunked it is.

          Haven’t you noticed how intractable they are, Claire?

          They live amongst us like in some horror zombie movie.

          • I’m not stressed over all of this nonsense. Let them be delusional, it’s their lives to do with what they want. As for me, I’m going to enjoy this beautiful day.

  7. REP at heart.

    You do that. Spend the next 4 years making a fool of yourself with no facts to back it up.

    Everything Trump has been accused of is true.

    He lies.
    He cheats.
    He uses the White House to fill his pockets. No pass on that.
    He is ignorant of the Constitution and the way this government works.
    He lies but I repeat myself.

    • … just no way of sticking their heads in the sand deep enough, even the most obtuse of democrats has little choice but begrudgingly concede, the Harris-Biden people rigged the election. The crime of the century, having to reconcile something this scale and magnitude, we can see for ourselves these democrats are coming unhinged –

      • In Georgia, it’s not going to be a recount. They’ve ordered an audit. Far deeper, far more involved, in Georgia, it’s going to be an audit. Incipient to inevitably being caught, a whole lot of Georgia democrats well on their way to the gray bar motel, is why you see democrats becoming so unhinged.

  8. Trump and his supporters are undermining the law and U.S. election process by spreading false claims, to cause confusion and chaos. Unstable minds try desperately to spread this poison.

  9. The crime of the century, fraud on so unprecedented a scale, there is no likelihood ever covering it up. Exploitation of CIA assets HAMMER and SCORECARD, Defense-Intelligence in-collusion with a mainstream media more loyal to communist China than their own nation, disenfranchisement of 50% of America’s electorate, in pandering to a left wing socialism, the Harris-Biden coup arguably constitutes America’s biggest scandal since the JFK assassination —

      • You didn’t get enough oxygen during your birthing and that’s why you write the silly stuff you do.

        Your guy is off to a New York state prison next year. Will you send him love letters? You love ki$$ing Trump’s big,fat a$$ don’t you?

      • Dave’s problem, zero objectivity. Typical Nancy Pelosi person, it’s biased which makes them stupid.

        • Everyone that comments is biased, Barbi. You’re biased toward Dave, therefore you along with the rest of the commenters that post biased opinions are, well, biased. I’m biased too and stupid just like you. There, now, we are all stupid for wasting our lives posting our biased opinions that solve nothing.

        • Pelosi, an 80 year old grandma, is Speaker of the House and Trump is afraid of her.

          She has a bigger set than he does.

          And, Barbi is a nobody quacking.

          What is the sound of a nobody quacking? Read Barbi’s comments.

          • There is no Trump second term.

            People were dancing in the streets all over the world.

            The mayor of Paris welcomed us back (from the insanity).

            The stock market is doing great.

            Trump is headed for therapy……in prison.

    • This HAMMER and SCORECARD conspiracy is debunked as nonsense.

      Consider the sources for these comments.

      Would you let them housesit your plants

      • Trump shot himself in both feet.

        He downplayed COVID and called it a hoax.

        That the pandemic raged all over the country made mail in ballots necessary.

        Mail in ballots cost Trump the election. Many blacks who were disenfranchised by red states unconstitutional election laws were better served by mail in ballots. They didn’t have to go miles out of their way to polling places with long lines and even if the did they did it.

        If I were Trump, I wouldn’t stand up a rake against the wall. He would likely place it so it smacked him upside the head when he stepped on it.

        Anyway, orange suits in a New York state prison await him and his family.

        • The New York Times called officials in every state and there is no evidence of election fraud.

          Tell that to your dumb friends.

  10. The MAGA cult is out of the White House… The majority of the population 74,000,000+ vote for Biden… Get over it.
    Unlike Trump, our new President doesn’t see red or blue states, he sees the UNITED STATES.

    • No he see millions of $$$ from china. Btw no state has certified the election because the leftist loving communists got caught cheating. So I suggest you stand at attention, put your right hand over your heart as you recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag.

      Donald Trump is still the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 4 MORE YEARS!

      BTW, where is the laptop from hell??

    • Wow the cognitive dissonance lives deep in this halfwit, so bidet was certified when?Thought so..pfffttt GTFOH.

  11. Trump supporters dancing to Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name.” Not what Rage had in mind.

  13. … a HAMMER and SCORECARD manipulated election, America is now the first of planet Earth Englich speaking nations which no longer boast free and fair elections –

    • OK Joyce

      Where’s your proof? Come on. Show us the evidence.

      So far, the Trump Crime Syndicate has gone to court and when the judge asks for evidence/facts/proof nothing. Nada. Just as empty as your comment.

      He keeps losing the cases that would make any difference in the outcome.

      How long are you going to maintain your ignorance about this?

      One more thing. Where were you when Trump’s Postmaster General sabotaged the postal service to make voting by mail more difficult? Then he complains about it taking too long to count the large number of mail in ballots.

      Trump has you coming and going, doesn’t he Joyce?

      • It keeps getting worse for Trump (better for us). The fitting presser at the 4 Seasons Total Landscaping company was a doozy.

        Rudy Giuliani had a “poll watcher” there to testify that he saw something. That guy is a convicted sex offender with minors no less. He was a perennial candidate for one office or another.

        Still no evidence of fraud in the Philadelphia ballot counting.

        Aren’t you Trumpers embarrassed that you got nothing, no evidence to back up your wild claims of election fraud?

      • CNNMSDNCBLABLA has you morons dancing in the street celebrating absolutely NOTHING,the meltdown headed your way once bidet is sent packing back to his basement will pale in comparison to the dim implosion in ’16.Good time to buy stock in suicide lines…dim heads exploding is a wonderful thing..tick tock low iq halfwits.

    • Payback imminent from the masters of the universe, the Harris-Biden democrats already moving very fast on blacklisting, time’s come for moderates and conservatives to begin the task in earnest, scrubbing from social media, dismantling our presence from Facebook and Twitter. Easier said than done, scrubbing my Facebook presence took three months –

    • Hey me

      Are you with Qanon? I guess Quanon, the KKK, Proud Boys, et al are America too if Trump is America.

  15. Stinger,

    I remember the Democrats bitching and complaining about Trump for 4 years. Now that we have a Democrat is in office we REP have to be quiet? That’s pretty two faced (just like DEMS). What was it Democrats use to say “not my president” so let me say this #BIDENNOTMYPRESIDENT.

    • REP at heart.

      You do that. Spend the next 4 years making a fool of yourself with no facts to back it up.

      Everything Trump has been accused of is true.

      He lies.
      He cheats.
      He uses the White House to fill his pockets. No pass on that.
      He is ignorant of the Constitution and the way this government works.
      He lies but I repeat myself.

      • Name one estroboy.

        Tell us those lies.

        You got nothing like the rest of you guys whining about poor Trump getting the boot. People are dancing in the streets all over the world.

        But, you keep watching Faux ‘news’ and you’ll be real smart. some day. Of course that day will never come.

  17. Hey, SurfsideO

    You’ve got your whole rant backward. That’s Trump Crime Syndicate stuff you’re projecting onto liberals.

    Now, President-Elect Biden has to clean up the mess Trump left (10 million Americans have been infected and a recession) just like Obama had to clean up after the mess Bush left him.

    Why are you so ignorant?

    • You are the uneducated one…. you just want and see how we fair under your Biden. Dems have no idea what their in for. I will just say now “I told you so”

      • Look shirley or is it “surely”?

        We had already told you so when Trump was elected that he was unfit for office, a con artist, a crook and it came to pass that he was. all that and more.

        Now, you are foolishly speculating based on what…your analysis of bat guano. That’s why they say y’all are “bat$hit crazy”. Y’are y’know.

        The more you comment the more it’s evident. Keep it up.

        Trump just fired his Defense Secretary in another example of his craziness that so appeals to you. I guess he’ll appoint some dog walker to be the new secretary like all the other amateur losers in his administration.

  18. Let it be said that this will be a critical period for our dear liberals. Because with leftist liberals in command from top to bottom, they will have no excuses when they trigger world war 3, ignite civil war 2 or just plain and simply bankrupt the country.

    • They’re bound to do what they’ve accused Trump of potentially doing except in their petty minds, its for a just cause… Like Lybia. Its amazing what one can do when illegal ballots are raked in. Blm might coincidently go back in their holes and covid might magically vanish in the air until the next republican election. Does it all not smell like B.S. from a mile away? Slippery Joe and his blm welfare cronies had this all planned.

    • *sigh*… Okay, Surfside, mission check: Which is more important; Trump, or America?

      So far, you seem to favor Trump over America.